Word: ross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TOUCH ME IN THE MORNING, Diana Ross. Number one in August. No melody, sickening vocal, melodramatic...
Computer Millionaire H. Ross Perot's decision in 1971 to take over the teetering brokerage firm of duPont, Glore Forgan & Co. was widely credited with averting a round of genuine investor panic on Wall Street. Among other things, it seemed that the firm's customers claimed that they owned about $15 million more in securities than could be found in duPont, Glore Forgan's vaults. Other brokers were hardly anxious for back-office carelessness on Wall Street to become any more of an issue than it already was-which was certain to happen if the company folded...
...pass up all of the marvelous crooners? Lanny Ross, Bing Crosby, Russ Columbo, Arthur Tracey, Morton Downey and Kate Smith...
...Ross Perot, the crew-cut Texas computer centimillionaire, was full of self-confidence in 1971 when he took control of Wall Street's ailing duPont Glore Forgan Inc., then the nation's third largest brokerage house. By pumping millions of his own into the firm and applying to its operations the data processing techniques that had made him rich, Perot vowed that "I am going to make it as solid as the Prudential...
...give up flirting, she would "give up altogether." Now it seems that her championship of sometime Photographer Ron Protas, 31, as executive director of the Martha Graham Dance Company has caused several old friends to give her up. Sounding like a rejected suitor, Graham Company Veteran Bertram Ross explained his recent resignation: "Life has always been difficult with Martha. Now, Protas is encouraging her to fantasize she's a young girl and two men are fighting over her favors." Exiting too were another long-time Graham dancer, Mary Hinkson and five "unsympathetic" members of the board who were persuaded...